# Lead AI Engineer - Advanced AI

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000.00 - $286,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

Target’s Advanced AI team builds end-to-end AI/ML systems that create meaningful business value across the enterprise.

As a Lead AI Engineer for Advanced AI, you will help design, build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications that support automation, insight, and action across core business workflows.

In this role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for AI engineering initiatives.

Core responsibilities:

- Design, build, deploy, and maintain AI/ML applications

- Work closely with Data Scientists, engineers, product partners, platform teams, security teams, and business stakeholders

- Provide technical leadership for AI engineering initiatives

- Evaluate models, frameworks, and tools

- Write maintainable production-quality code

- Establish strong engineering practices

Requirements:

- 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Tech, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent industry experience required

- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience

- Strong experience developing AI/ML applications

- Strong proficiency with Python and experience with modern AI/ML or deep learning frameworks

- Experience working with model APIs, prompt orchestration, agent development patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation frameworks, observability tools, cloud ML platforms, containers, or orchestration technologies

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short term disability

- Long term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- AI/ML
- deep learning
- machine learning
- LLMs
- agentic systems

### Nice to have
- MS in Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Applied Mathematics

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